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Just got a new pup, having trouble- if you are experienced with crate training and yelping.....please let me know- lots of accidents soon after pup has come inside, little luck with quiet in crate,....help

How are you using the crate? Are you taking her out regularly; after meals, after play and after naps? Is she confined unless you are watching her? Are you TAKING her out, not allowing play until she does her "business, then rewarding? Have you had her checked for urinary infection? How old is she? What conditions was she kept in at the breeders? Most of my pups are fairly well ready to housebreak at ten weeks. The breed, on a whole, is fairly clean and neat. I wold be concerned about a urinary problem, if you are following the above, and she was kept in a clean environment, allowed to not "potty" in her own space at the breeders.